I installed Firefox on Linux Mint Debian Edition with the Cinnamon desktop.

This Firefox package doesn't use the regular Firefox icon, with the fox curled around the world ; it has what I call the "orange eyeball" icon.

Is there a way to have the standard Firefox icon show up on the panel ("taskbar") button and the menus? This "eyeball" icon is so visually unappealing that if I can't change it, I'll uninstall Firefox and use Opera or Chrome instead. (Yes, I really do find it that ugly. I do not want to have to look at this thing.)

I logged in with gksudo and drag the icon I wanted into /usr/share/icons and then doubled clicked on the taskbar icon and loaded the new one, simple. Probably should have put it in the /usr/share/icons/Mint-X/apps/16 but it worked so why fix it?

As a quick and dirty workaround, you can download a build from upstream, the Mozilla Foundation, the only ones who are legally able to make builds of that web browser with the name "Firefox" and with the fox-and-globe logo.

Sometimes the easy answer is staring you (or in this case 'me') right in the face. Took me forty-five minutes and some help from a fellow at the LinuxMint forum to figure something out what I should have known.

Right-click Menu button > Edit menu

In left pane, click Internet

In right pane, click Firefox Web Browser > click Properties

In the Launcher Properties box, click the Firefox icon on the left. then Choose an icon box opens

My solution was to copy the Firefox icons from another Linux computer and put them on the Linux Mint Maya computer. In the example below, the dollar $ prompt is the regular terminal prompt, and the pound # is the root user prompt.